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Quote by Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own. – John Wooden

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Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. – Aristotle

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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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